I am curious as to when the backlash on the extreme sport boast will begin. The mania for self-punishment is great these days. The running of multi-marathons; the self-exhortations to drive the self into the ground for some kind of virtue; the desire to feel the pain, as if this were the healthy option. It is difficult not to see much of this material as a variation on self-loathing, a form of masochism whereby you make the body hurt so much that the mind does not need to face other truths. Surely the best option for the body is the attainment of harmony, not some perverse form of self-punishment.

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